Have been busy, so things around here have been…well…dead. Contemplating what to do around here. Suggestions?
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I’m back!
Things are stabilizing a bit around here, so I’ll be writing again soon. Stay tuned!
On hiatus
The Bastard has been downsized, that means this little blog will take a back seat while I concentrate on other matters more pressing. Thanks for understanding. If you’re in Toronto and are looking for top notch IT management (15+ years of enterprise level IT) please use the contact form and let’s talk! Thank you.
Pretty Hate Machine
20 years ago, October 20th. that’s 1989. One Mr. Trent Reznor unleashed a groundbreaking album unto the world, and it was called Pretty Hate Machine. One of 5 albums that changed my life. Whether you’re a NIN fan, or not, you have to admit it changed things. Grab a copy if you’ve never heard it [...]
TidBITS turns 1000!
A brief shout-out to the team over at TidBITS (the Mac news site that seems to have been around since the dawning of time!). They have published a newsletter regularly since April 1990, and hit #1000 on October 19th 2009! To Adam, Tonya and the rest of the TidBITS group; Congratulations and here’s to another [...]
Why is everyone sick?
Is this H1N1 2.0? (apologies in advance for the randomness of this post) I’m getting over a mild cold. The Irish Wife is blowing chunks of stuff I’d rather not attempt to describe. 1/2 of my office is sneezing, sniffling, coughing or otherwise miserable. What the hell is going on? We’ve had a cold snap [...]
Living Colour @ Lee’s Palace – Toronto 10/3/2009
Yes, THAT Living Colour! Let’s get it out of the way up front — They’ve been back together since 2000, and have been busy ever since. Those of you that bought Vivid on cassette or CD then forgot about the band, you missed out. You need to know right now that they have a new [...]
DeWalt DW718 12″ Sliding Miter Saw
DAAAAMN! This thing is a beast! A few weeks ago Home Depot had a HUGE DeWalt sale. All DeWalt tools were 20% off. Nice, The Bastard likes. My feeble $199 Ryobi 10″ sliding miter saw had had its day. It performed well, but never up to The Scot’s normally high standards for such pieces. The [...]
on back pain
Many years ago I used to vacation at a resort in northern Ontario, Canada. I basically grew up at this particular resort, had my first cigarette there, drank my first beer, kissed a girl for the first time, broke my tailbone there, wiped out waterskiing and felt my heel hit the back of my head… [...]
WordPress – It just works!
It’s not the Trini. Sorry mate, I had to hijack your column for a post. We just upgraded The Cheap Scottish Bastard back-end (that certainly sounds strange doesn’t it?) to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4) from an older 2.7 version. Unfortunately the automatic 2.7->2.8 upgrade process didn’t work. The manual upgrade, while a bit [...]